Travel / Tour Guides
A Travel or Tour Guide leads tours for groups of visitors or tourists. Leads tours of museums or famous or historic sites, and provides visitors with details and anecdotes about the history and significance of buildings, artwork or collections. Travels with a group of tourists, plans site visits and daily itineraries, interprets languages, and shares specialized knowledge about a country or city with the group.
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Core Tasks
- Serves food and beverages to passengers.
- Makes announcements to passengers and deals with enquiries.
- Receives passengers on ship, examines tickets and other documentation, directs them to their cabin and assists with any luggage.
- Completes way-bill at scheduled points on route and balances cash taken with tickets issued.
- Signals to driver when to stop and start bus, collects fares from passengers and issues tickets and changes destination indicators as necessary.
- Responds to enquiries and complaints, books excursions and other entertainment and provides other assistance and advice to holidaymakers.
- Makes local arrangements at stopover points for food and accommodation.
- Receives passengers, checks tickets and guides them to their seats, makes announcements regarding travel arrangements and places of interest, and deals with passengers’ queries.
- Observes regulations concerning the carrying capacity of vehicles and controls the boarding of passengers accordingly.
Education Requirements
| Level | Percentage |
| Level 0 | 3.013365% |
| Level 1 | 5.621842% |
| Level 2 | 10.792217% |
| Level 3 | 24.966856% |
| Level 4-5 (Higher Education) | 9.914365% |
| Level 6 (Bachelors) | 30.574368% |
| Level 7 (Masters or equivalent) | 15.116987% |
Salary Levels
£36,799.76
Potential Salary
£17,532.00
Entry Level Salary
£20,941.11
Average Salary
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